SOME CURIOSITIES OF BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—In the voluminous account of the Czar's reception in Paris, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph of October 7th, the following quaint specimen of Biblical lore occurs. The italics are mine :—" These representatives of the broad basis of Parisian life were thrust into the back- ground, and were fain, like Nicodemus before his conversion, to climb up a tree in order to catch a glimpse of the modern Messiah in his Muscovite uniform." I cannot help suspecting it to be the same eloquent pen that wrote in a first (and, I believe, last) number of some weekly journal, whose name I forget, that the policy of that journal would be one of sym- pathy for the masses, and would be in harmony with the spirit of that Teacher who chose to appear amongst men as ." the son of the humble carpenter of Arimathea." Sorely it must be the same head that entertained such peculiar notions
of Joseph and Nicodemus.—I am, Sir, &c. E. E.
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